I saw a picture of a guy who'd managed to lose pretty much all his lower jaw in some kind of accident. AFAIK he was still alive, although his eyes looked like they'd been pushed out of true and there was clearly some travelling force damage up the middle of his face.

I can still kind of 'see' it in my minds eye and it upset me a lot the first time I saw it because it was a 'surprise!' image rather than an expected event. I sincerely wish I'd never seen it at all.

MetalDog wrote:
I saw a picture of a guy who'd managed to lose pretty much all his lower jaw in some kind of accident. AFAIK he was still alive, although his eyes looked like they'd been pushed out of true and there was clearly some travelling force damage up the middle of his face.

I remember seeing that, i think it was a motorbike accident where the unfortunate man came of said bike basically grated his lower face off along a length of tarmac. iirc in the pic he's sort of sat there with medics round him looking sorry for himself staring into the camera...Nasty.

kalel wrote:
Someone once sent me an email with lots of pictures of the results of a suicide bomb in Iraq. The pics were just there in the email with no warning and the second I opened it, it was already too late.

MetalDog wrote:
@kalel
The ones you have no chance to mentally prepare yourself for are way worse, aren't they?

Definitely.

It's the same trick they often use in horror films. There's an unspoken rule in horror films that you let the audience know when it's a scary sequence and when it's a safe sequence just through the general tone, but you're allowed one good scare during a safe sequence, and that's usually the biggest scare in the film.

kalel wrote:
Someone once sent me an email with lots of pictures of the results of a suicide bomb in Iraq. The pics were just there in the email with no warning and the second I opened it, it was already too late.

what nice friends you have.

He was an odd one. He was the classic “first friend you make on your first day” friend I had at my last job, in the sense that within a day it was obvious I was never going to really speak to him again. However, we would forward each other funny emails and such, until one day he sent me that.

I sent back a reply asking politely not to send me that kind of thing, and he replied “why???” and I replied I wasn’t really into them, and that was the last email we sent each other.

I had a similar experience to kal in uni but it was a picture of what I think was a infected or deformed eye or something. The best thing was I managed to avoid really seeing what it was an deleted it. Went off to have lunch and then came back and it had been made my desktop background. Thanks friends.

I never watched it either. That's the sort of thing you kind of expect to want to unsee afterwards - prevention is better than cure!

My cousin showed me a video of some guy shoving a jar up his arse, making it break and then picking out the bits of glass in a shower of bright red arse blood. He was all scarred up, so I figure it's something he's done quite a bit.

The sound of glass grinding together up his bottom has stuck with me. Thanks cousin!

Oh god, reading these just reminded me of soem "jokey" email I got.
Similar to Kalel's colleague. Some IT bloke who was sitting near our department so we were introduced on my first day and he immediately added me to his "mailing list".
He must've been subscribed to a few "joke of the day" sites. Every day he'd send out 1 to 3 emails to a shitload of people.

One day this included a "funny" story of the dangers of BBQ-ing, ending with a picture of some poor guy's thoroughly black and crisp penis.

Also just coming back to me.
Picture of a dockworker that got flattened under a container.
More odd looking than really gory.

Photoshop of little maggots in a sort of beehive structure which had been shopped onto an image of a woman's breast so it looked like the maggots were in the nipple. Gah.
Even though it was such an obvious photo shop, the resulting image just stuck.